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June 19, 2024

Graduates complete four-year Education for Ministry course; registration open for fall classes around diocese

[The Episcopal News] Twenty-one graduates from across the Diocese of Los Angeles celebrated completion of the Education for Ministry (EfM) program – a four-year, in-depth course in scripture, church history, and Christian ethics and doctrine – with June 15 commencement exercises at St. Paul’s Commons, Echo Park. Presiding at the graduation Eucharist, Bishop John Harvey […]

June 18, 2024

Seeds of Hope is flourishing, new director tells Diocesan Council at June meeting

[The Episcopal News] Bishop John Harvey Taylor opened the June 13 online meeting of Diocesan Council by offering healing prayers for Canon Melissa McCarthy, who is recovering from recent surgery, before the group heard a report on the diocese’s thriving Seeds of Hope ministry. Council also heard reports of an improved financial snapshot; the Program […]

June 18, 2024

RIP: The Reverend Eduardo Bresciani Undurraga

February 22, 1951 – June 11, 2024 The Rev. Eduardo Roberto Bresciani Undurraga, retired rector of St. Margaret’s Church, South Gate, died June 11 in Santiago, Chile, after an extended battle with ALS. He was 73. Survivors include his brother, Christian Bresciani of Miami, Florida, and sisters Ana Maria Bresciani Underraga and Paula Bresciani Undurraga […]

June 15, 2024

Juneteenth Celebration at St. John’s Cathedral

When a Union general proclaimed in Galveston 159 years ago today that the enslaved people of Texas were at last to be considered free people, the Civil War was over. The so-called confederacy had ceased to be. But in the depths of Texas, which had entered the Union just 20 years before under the banner […]

June 12, 2024

Forward strides affirmed at L.A. Pride parade

[The Episcopal News] Next steps for the Bishop’s Commission on LGBTQ+ Ministry were in focus as 100 Southland Episcopalians marched in the 54th annual L.A. Pride parade June 9 in Hollywood. “The prophets among us who have been struggling for justice for a half-century say that we’ve made a lot of progress with a lot […]

June 12, 2024

Anamchara Fellowship installs Patricia Sarah Terry as fourth abbess

[The Episcopal News]  Sister Patricia Sarah Terry had no sooner been installed as the fourth abbess of the Anamchara Fellowship than she took her duties to heart and got right to work, installing the monastic order’s next chaplain. Terry, who previously chaired the Los Angeles diocese’s Bishop’s Commission on Gospel Justice and Community Care, was […]

June 9, 2024

Los Angeles Pride Parade

If every person encloses a universe, behold the multiverse of today’s LA Pride parade route in Hollywood. A hundred thousand came to the 54th annual parade, organizers predicted. LGBTQIA+? PFLAG? Supportive? Curious? Wanting to be entertained? You’d have to ask everyone. I would have liked to. This afternoon I rode in splendor on the back […]

June 5, 2024

New leader takes the rainbow baton at GLEAM’s annual garden party

[The Episcopal News – June 5, 2024] The world desperately needs the witness of LGBTQIA+ Christians because their struggles for inclusion, equality and recognition have given them unique skills and perspective, Bishop John Harvey Taylor told Episcopalians gathered at his Pasadena home for the annual Bishop’s Commission on LGBTQ Ministries garden party on June 2, […]

May 30, 2024

Diocese seeks communications coordinator

[The Episcopal News] The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles is seeking a communications coordinator skilled in social media, digital publications, and news reporting and editing. A description of the full-time diocesan staff position is here. Qualified applicants are asked to email a resumé and cover letter to Canon Anilin Collado, diocesan missioner for human resources, […]

May 29, 2024

Five official Diocese of Los Angeles reps prepare to attend Triennial meeting alongside General Convention

[The Episcopal News] The Diocese of Los Angeles will be well-represented at the 151st Triennial – the every-three- years gathering of women from across the worldwide Anglican Communion slated for June 22-28 in Louisville, Kentucky, in conjunction with the 81st General Convention of The Episcopal Church. “Early on, before women could serve as clergy or […]

May 22, 2024

Cathedral service celebrates ministry of retired Bishop Suffragan Chet Talton: ‘Today, I feel loved by The Episcopal Church’

[The Episcopal News] Retired Bishop Suffragan Chet Talton drew sustained cheers and applause when addressing several hundred Episcopalians from the dioceses of Los Angeles and San Joaquin, saying, “today I feel loved by The Episcopal Church.” Talton’s life and ministry were celebrated with a special May 18 service at St. John’s Cathedral, sponsored by the […]

May 22, 2024

Los Angeles deputies, bishop, others prepare for ‘giant footprint’ at General Convention

[The Episcopal News] From June 22 to 28, Southern and Central Californians will join an estimated 10,000 people – bishops, deputies, volunteers, media, exhibitors, vendors, Episcopal Church Women, Daughters of the King, and other guests in “Derby City” – at the 81st General Convention of The Episcopal Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Attendees will enjoy worship […]